630 | Page Traffic Congestion and Possible Solutions in Urban Transportation System Ankush Kumar 1 , Dr. R.R Singh 2 1 M. E Scholar, 2 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, (India) ABSTRACT In rapidly growing cities of country like India, the increasing private transport and high movement of the population toward urban cities leads to problem of congestion, which further leads to complications and hazard on the cities roads. Indian cities already suffering with huge deficiencies in term of infrastructures as well as in operational efficiencies. Considering the policy gaps on country roads this paper first describes the factor causing the congestion and after that presents some recommended measures to reduce the congestion on the city roads. Keywords: Urban transportation system, congestion, traffic, vehicles, public transport, infrastructures I. INTRODUCTION Most of the cities in Country like India are undergoing multi-faceted problems because of the rapid urbanization and sudden increment in the private transport. Congestion on the urban roads are afflicting vehicle stockpile in India, and effects the urban economies in different ways. Congestion may be defined as excess demand for travel over its supply. In fact, the reason why governments are forced to revisit their policies like in Delhi for urban transport just because of increasing demand of travel with in limited available services like public transports. The occurrence of congestion on the city roads prevents the movement of traffic and leading to the intolerable increase in the trip delay. Constructing new road or the widening of an existing road is a temporary relief to the congestion, but in future perspective it simply encourages the growth of the new vehicle through increased level and it may also switch away the use of public transport. Building new road does not always hold good for variety of financial, environmental and political reasons, in fact by introducing greater demand of vehicle to travel smoothly and save time it compounds congestion on that road also. Against the serious problem of growing and existing congestion problems in the Indian cities, smart traffic control and information techniques are required that can subsequently reduce the traffic congestion and increase demand of public transport